An exciting opportunity has arisen for Senior Community Staff Nurse or Trainee Senior Community Nurse to join a community nursing team in the Glenrothes Locality supporting the delivery of high-quality nursing care to the people of Fife.
The Senior Community Nurse will be responsible for the management of a caseload of community patients leading and managing a team of qualified nursing staff and health support workers.
You will provide an accessible, appropriate, high quality, culturally sensitive and effective nursing service in the community, by working in partnership with service users, care providers and other agencies. You will function as an independent autonomous practitioner by virtue of in-depth knowledge, expertise, proficiency and experience to lead and enable the district nursing team to provide a quality nursing service. You will be the clinical expert who will be accountable for case management and nursing activity within the caseload, and lead, manage and support the district nursing team.
You should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will be committed to the development of an effective flexible person-centred nursing team through your ongoing professional development as well as that of your team.
Considerable community nursing experience is essential for this post and candidates must have already completed further study or demonstrate a willingness to complete further study towards a specialist practitioner community nursing qualification.
The post will include working weekends and public holidays and in addition to being able to work in other areas Fife-wide if the service warrants it.
You will be required to work within a 24 hour, 7 day Community Nursing Service.
An ability to travel across the locality is essential.
The post will be offered on an Annex 21 basis dependant on previous qualifications.
Trainees are paid a percentage of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate which is dependent on the duration of the training period (see Terms and Conditions).
For informal enquiries, please contact Lucy Sinclair, Team Leader DCN on or at
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